Articles by Nicole Villeneuve

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  Randy Thunderbird

  How to Talk to Kids About Robots

  PUBLISHED Apr 6, 2010

  Brimming with hearty hooks and a growling, suburban punk rock malaise, Kalamazoo, MI's Randy Thunderbird deliver a raucous first full-lengt...

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  Melissa Auf der Maur

  The Exclaim! Questionnaire

  PUBLISHED Mar 26, 2010

  It's been six years since Melissa Auf der Maur released her debut solo album, but from ongoing photographic work to multiple artistic colla...

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  Various

  Third Floor Sessions: Volume 1

  PUBLISHED Mar 22, 2010

  Third Floor Sessions: Volume 1 is a collection of highlights from a three-month cross-platform live-concert series executed by a group of f...

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  Soft Copy

  Vicious Modernism

  PUBLISHED Mar 22, 2010

  Toronto, ON's Soft Copy aren't new to the indie rock or punk scenes — band members Paul Boddum and Andrew McAllister played in the ba...

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  Pinsky

  Two for the Road

  PUBLISHED Mar 22, 2010

  It's a bit strange for a band to release a deluxe edition of an album that was only originally released two years ago, especially if it's o...

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  Eagle Scout

  New Hands

  PUBLISHED Mar 22, 2010

  Somewhere in the musical crossroads of Seattle's indie melancholy and the Midwest's math rock/post-punk hotbed lays the sound of Greenville...

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  The Method Actors

  This Is Still It

  PUBLISHED Mar 22, 2010

  It's well known that Athens, GA in the late '70s and early '80s was a breeding ground for experimental indie rock and, of course, birthed s...

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  The Whigs

  In the Dark

  PUBLISHED Mar 16, 2010

  When the Whigs released their second album, Mission Control, in 2008, they found themselves the subject of heaping amounts of critical prai...